PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

CLOZE TEST

PREPARATORY SET-36 (VERY NEW PATTERN)

Direction (Qs.1 to 5): In the passage given below there are blanks which are to be filled with the options given below. Find out the appropriate pair of words in each case which can most suitably complete the sentence without altering the meaning of the statement.

 

The whole Silicon Valley ecosystem began with the US defence department’s attempt to create solutions for its …(1)… problems/requirements by funding small companies formed by the professors and research students/graduates of Stanford University. Defence had the funds and clearly defined problems in need of solutions. Folks at the university had the …(2)… and the hunger to solve them and create wealth for themselves in the process. Angel investing and venture capital came along in due course to scale up this process of funding startups to deliver products and services that scale up. The rest, as they say, has been the future. There is every reason to believe that this process of …(3)… innovation and building businesses that thrive by delivering …(4)… solutions to the problems and requirements identified by Defence is replicable and will create both …(5)… defence kit and a new breed of hitech companies that generate jobs, intellectual property and wealth.

Question No : 1

(1) ranged/graded   

(2) varying/ranked  

(3) assorted/miscellaneous                   

(4) classified/disposed                          

(5) arranged/filed

Question No : 2

(1) acumen/alertness

(2) brainpower/intellect                        

(3) intuition/cunning

(4) mentality/perception                       

(5) wit/insight

Question No : 3

(1) tilling/sowing     

(2) growing/harvesting

(3) rearing/tending

(4) seeding/putting in

(5) ranching/raising

Question No : 4

(1) attainable/realizable                        

(2) likely/expedient

(3) viable/feasible

(4) usable/tenable    

(5) logical/valid

Question No : 5

(1) innate/constitutive

(2) local/primitive

(3) initial/earliest

(4) indigenous/domestic                       

(5) native/aboriginal